Re: [Enigma-devel] "Level finished!" messages without mention of par

[Roy McCoy]

Ronald wrote:

> I agree with you and Daniel, that these messages are not motivating. But in a 
> program that supports many languages you should generally avoid changes in 
> text messages. That is the simple reason that we never touched these texts 
> within the last releases.

Thanks for this explanation.

> Fortunatly there is a simple workaround to change messages on your privat 
> copy of Enigma. You can compile your own "translation" and feed it to Enigma 
> as one of the supported languages.

Well, I can at least try to do that.

> Just do the following steps to substitute the Finnish translation by your own 
> texts:
> 1. Download the sourcecode of your Enigma release

Where is that for the latest Mac OS version? I don't have a version number, but 
the files are dated May 26, 2007.


Thanks,

Roy McCoy



> 2. Copy "po/enigma.pot" to a working directory
> 3. Rename the copy to "fi.po"
> 4. Execute "msgfmt -c --statistics -o enigma.mo fi.po"
> 5. Copy the resulting output file "enigma.mo" to the appropriate enigma
> subdirectory (fi meand Finnish):
>  data\locale\fi\LC_MESSAGES\enigma.mo
> 
> Note that you will likely need to download and to install the tool "msgfmt" 
> out of Gnu gettext. A Windows version is located at 
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gettext.htm
> 
> Of course you will need to select your substituion language (Finnish) when 
> play Enigma to see your own texts.
> 
>> Somebody in the Yahoo group suggested that I join this list
>> and ask here, so that's what I've now done.
> 
> Thanks Jennifer - would you be interested in further graphics contributions?
> 
> Greets,
> 
> Ronald